78 Quotes About Semantics

Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.

The model of semantic interpretation we construct should reflect the particular properties and difficulties of natural language, and not simply be an application of a ready-to-wear logical formalism to a new body of data

We can know, not what a thing is, but what its name is.

So... I've been thinking about starting a wedding planning Business... You know, like an arranged marriage sort of thing. So... who wants to be in the presence of True Love??

meanwhile I was thinking that if half the cells in side of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun, let alone as the author of my fate?

A theory of reality must not only explain reality, but also knowledge about that reality because knowing reality is part of reality.

A universe of classical particles is devoid of knowledge because the universe can only be itself and not a representation of something else. If the universe was only composed of classical particles, then there would only be physical properties but no meanings. The idea that we can have information about an object without becoming that object is central to all knowledge.

If the Mentalese story about the content of thought is true, then there couldn't be a private language argument. Good. That explains why there isn't one. (In Critical Condition, p. 68)

One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)